Today we are overjoyed to welcome the wonderful Chelsea Peretti to the site to answer questions from you, our lovely readers. In the event you’re somehow unfamiliar with her, Chelsea performs stand-up regularly across the country and served as Aziz Ansari’s opening act on his recent comedy tour. She can be seen portraying Gina Linetti this fall on the Fox comedy Brooklyn Nine Nine and has also appeared on Louie, Kroll Show, Tosh.0 and on Adult Swim’s China, IL. Additionally, Chelsea has written for Parks and Recreation, Saturday Night Live, The Sarah Silverman Program, and Kroll Show.

Today’s discussion is scheduled to begin at 2pm EST and will go for about an hour. Please begin your questions with “@Chelsea” to keep things organized. We’ll be opening the thread up a couple of hours ahead of time with the goal of getting to the questions in the order they are submitted. Click on “See All Responses” or Chelsea’s name in the right side module to easily access all of her answers.

@Chelsea hope you don’t take offense at this cause I love your voice, but is that how you’ve always sounded/talked or is it something you developed throughout your career as part of your stage “persona”, also I’ll still love you no matter what

@Chelsea Sorry to be mildly serious, but you’re a chick writer making it in comedy. Jezebel recently freaked out that there was a serious lack of female writers and showrunners. Do you get that same feeling from the inside? Is it still all white dudes? (Here is where I should insert some sort of lazy joke about penises, but I’m over it.)